Regina Dawn Akers

Question: Holy Spirit, I seem to be noticing my brothers as unsure of their guidance. At times, I may also believe they are making mistakes. There are brothers who feel I am mistaken about my guidance, and the thought of being unsure has popped into my mind. What would you share regarding knowing and trusting guidance?

Answer: The first step to knowing and trusting guidance is to know and trust you. This may seem that I am asking you to look to the ego for guidance, but I am only asking that you know where you are.

Each one is guided on an individual path. This is not because each one is an individual, but because each one perceives himself as unique. Uniqueness must fall away through a path that meets uniqueness where it is and then leads steadily away from there. For each one to learn that they are not the unique one they think they are, it takes a very unique path.

You are to know your guidance by knowing yourself. You know at a level of intuitiveness the lessons you must learn. You know the guidance that leads you to learn those lessons and the guidance that leads away from learning them. If you choose the guidance that walks the way of undoing, you are choosing the guidance that comes from Me. When you choose the guidance that comes from wanting, but does not seem to involve undoing, you are not, currently, choosing with Me.

Each one must walk the path of undoing at a rate that is preferable to him. No one will walk at a speed that is faster or slower than his own desire to go. Trust each one, and you trust yourself.

Opportunities are never lost. Opportunities are given at the time when they are desired by the mind. This can never fail to happen. Trust the unfolding of the universe, and you trust yourself.

Resting the mind is always a useful practice. Find times to be still and think of nothing. Ask no questions and seek no answers. Simply rest and be aware of the presence that is Me. In these times, you are filled with wisdom and knowing, which will manifest as guidance when the time is right based upon your own willingness and your truest desire for the path of healing.

Fear is being flushed up now. To see fear, but not react to it, is to trust. To trust is to let go of fear. To let go of fear is to let go of the world of illusion and to choose to know thy true Self again.

Heaven is different than the world you see now. To stop at the world you see now and say, “I see Heaven” is to stop short of Heaven, which is there to see. When Heaven is seen, there will be no need to see it. When Heaven is seen, it will be all there is to see.

Let go of everything that is coming up within you now. Only the truth is true, but you cannot know that as long as you know anything else as true.

Holy Spirit: You have been seeing your confusion regarding individuality. That’s good. This confusion must be seen and released if you are to be truly helpful to Me. No “individual” can be helpful to Me, because I am not the teacher of individuality. I am the teacher of oneness. Only the thought of oneness is helpful to Me. The thought of oneness is one Will, and that one Will is yours and within you now.

Question: I understand clearly what you are saying, and I still have a question about the desire for a house and for financial security. Aren’t those desires from the individual?

Holy Spirit: Yes. The individual has not disappeared. To pretend that the individual has disappeared when it has not is not helpful. That is denial. I asked you to make the list that you may flush up the desires of the individual. To see that you still believe yourself to be individual is important. And I will not take that belief from you. That is why I do not ask you to give up your desires.

But, if you are willing to trust Me through not focusing on your individual desires, you will see that you are not the individual. By focusing on Me and My guidance within, you will learn what you truly are. You will come to see only one desire. It is that single desire, held to truly, that will lead you to step through the key hole that is called the eye of the needle.

Do not abandon your individual desires falsely. Do not pretend that you do not want what you do want. That is not helpful. Acknowledge your truest desires as they rest in your heart, and give those truest desires to Me. Then, continue to walk in the direction I ask you to walk without concern for your individual desires. Do not fear them. Let guilt not enter your mind regarding them. Only trust them as you continue to follow Me.

Question: What else would you share with me today?

Holy Spirit: Rest in peace. You know that resting is the way. You know that you are complete and whole now. Everything that you need will come upon you as you need it, and you will see it when you are resting and trusting.

Your role is to be at peace. Your function is happiness and joy. You are asked to be nothing but love. How easy to be that which you were created to be!

Now is a time of mind-watching, because now is a time of releasing all thoughts that are not of love. Thoughts that are not of love are of imagination, and so they are easy to release when you truly desire to do so. This is why we must look at your desire and question it now.

What do you think you want? Make a list. Don’t edit it based on some perceived judgment of what you think I want to see on the list. Make the list based on what is in your heart. Write down everything you desire, and do not stop until you feel you have written it all. Stop when intuition tells you to stop . . . when intuition says the list of highest desires is complete.

When the list is complete, look at it. Is there anything that you judge as wrong? Do you feel guilty for any of your desires? If you do, you feel guilty about yourself. This guilt must be let go if your highest desires are to be within your experience.

Is there anything on your list that doesn’t make your heart sing? Is there anything that came from the head instead of the heart? Is there anything that came from fear or unworthiness instead of love? If there is, cross that thing off of your list. It is not coming from your truth, and only your truth can guide you truly.

Is there anything on your list that you feel you do not deserve? If so, you have just uncovered a spot within your own mind that does not love you. Step into the stillness and heal that spot. You are perfect love, and everything about you is as perfect as you are.

When the list has been edited according to the instructions above, look at the list again. This perfect list, which captures your heart’s desire, is My will, or my guidance, for you. Accept this list as My guidance and My gift. Accept it as yours. Accept it as done. All that you need do to receive every gift on this list is to trust in the gift.

When thoughts come into the mind that distract you from the certainty of these gifts, say “no” to those thoughts. Remember that your only function is to trust in the gifts. By trusting in the gifts, you will be led to them. Do not make them for yourself, for what you make is not given, and so it is not a gift. Wait in anticipation for the day that I give the gift to you. For on that day, you shall truly rejoice. When you see that the gift is from Me and not through your thinking and your effort, you shall know truly that which is My Name. In knowing My Name, you learn your Name. In learning your Name, fear is no more.

Awakening is easier than you think. It is easier than you think, because there are no real obstacles to awakening. All that blocks you from knowing all that is as it is is your imagination and your wishes. Therefore, all you need to do is stop imagining and stop wishing.

This may seem like a daunting task when you look at the thinking mind and see that all it does is imagine and wish, but that is because you are forgetting who you are. You are thinking, as you look at the mind, that it is master and you are victim. You are thinking, as you look at the mind, that it has some power or control over you and you are powerless. This is not true. This is only a thought within the mind that you are believing. All you need do is choose to stop believing it. It is truly that simple.

Here is what you are to do:

Whenever you notice the mind seems to have run amok, stop and remember that the mind cannot run amok on its own. If it has run amok, it is because you have chosen to let it run amok on the power you are feeding it. Choose to remember who you are and what mind is. You are spirit and mind is the creation of spirit.

Relax, and remember who you Are.

Remember that spirit feeds mind and mind can only feed spirit if spirit chooses to step back and be fed. Then, choose not to step back. Choose to step into your power by stepping into the stillness, which is the strength of spirit beyond the ramblings of thinking mind.

In stillness, you connect at the level of spirit with Mind which is of God. This we call the Holy Spirit or the Voice for God, but it is that conduit which is connected to that which is true instead of that which is false. Resting within the quiet of that which is true, conscious awareness is fed by Holy Spirit, and you emerge from the rest renewed, with a clearer memory of that which you Are.

Quiet the mind. Let it be still. Do not expect “being still” to be a time of thoughtlessness. Thoughtlessness may come upon you, but it will not come upon you through your effort. You cannot make thoughtlessness. You can only make thoughts about thoughtlessness, and that is not thoughtlessness.

When I ask you to be still, I am not asking you to be thoughtless. I am merely asking that you allow a stillness or restfulness into your mind as well, and that you put your will, or willingness, with the stillness. As you do this, thoughts may still arise, but they cannot interrupt your will unless you choose to allow them to do so.

So, as a thought seems to knock on the door of your mind and say, “Please come out and play with me,” all you must do is say, “Not right now. Now I want to be still.”

Another thought may come along and ask you to play, and another and another, but all you need to do is listen to the stillness as you wave them away. You can listen to the stillness as you wave the thoughts away, just as you can listen to music as you wave a thought away.

Enjoying the stillness in this way is important, because it teaches you what you want. Your heart and mind drinks from the stillness as if it is the water of Life, because it is.

As you drink of the water of Life, you learn that the thoughts, which would distract you from this water, are not your total interest. As you learn they are not your total interest, they lose the commanding stature they have had in your mind until now. It is as if the volume is turned down on them, and they become less important to you.

As you go into the stillness day after day after day and drink of the water of Life, the distracters that held your attention become even less important. They may still clamor for your attention, but the volume has become so low that it is much easier to dismiss them without consideration. You are no longer interested in their raucousness. Your heart is with the stillness, and it is the stillness you follow throughout your day.

Yesterday, we talked about pain. Today, let’s talk about joy. I am not referring to intrinsic joy, which is perfect joy that does not waiver. I am talking about artificial joy, which is joy sought to cover or avoid pain.

Artificial joy is joy based on the world. It is joy that is experienced in attachment with specific outcomes, but joy that is not available if the outcomes should be different than the ones that are desired. Artificial joy is not stable. It is the proverbial house built on shifting sands.

One must watch the mind for signs of artificial joy, for where artificial joy is accepted as true joy, the basis of pain is also accepted. All of the beliefs that cause pain are hidden within the search for artificial joy.

In order to know true happiness, which is the house built on a foundation of rock, one must free the mind of beliefs that cause pain. In order to free the mind of these beliefs, one must see them and recognize them. However, one need not experience pain to see and let go of the beliefs of pain. One can mind-watch during periods of artificial joy and release beliefs that are the cause of all pain.

First, one must be willing to be aware of artificial joy as it is experienced. One must be willing to question the mind.

By asking these questions during times of relative joy, one can discover the attachments within the mind that cause pain. One can easily see how the absence of something that is perceived as needed shakes the concept of joy as it exists within the mind. As one identifies attachments that seem to be needed, one can also ask, “Why do I feel I need these things?”

When this question is asked, basic beliefs within the mind will rise to the surface to be questioned. For example:

Question: Holy Spirit, I have a friend with a desire to be useful. He is a student of A Course in Miracles, and has this question:

Answer: Nothing is ever just for you, as that is impossible. There is no “just you.” There is only everything, and that is you.

What you have not fully realized is your wonderful and glorious connectedness, or oneness, with all things. You see yourself as separate when you seek an answer to your question in form. The answer to your question is not in form. It lies in your mind and in your heart. You are your answer, and you are with you always.

You have seen how a train of dominoes reacts when the first domino is pushed down. They all react by following suit. Each domino, in its turn, also falls until all of the dominoes have done what the first has done. But, what would happen if one domino, mid-way through the line, did not fall? Then, all of the remaining dominoes would not fall. True? As you can see, it is important to the whole that each domino does its part.

This is how you are to be useful. You are to do your part by putting all of your energy into accepting the atonement for yourself. This is how you are most useful to the whole.

You have heard, “Seek ye first the Kingdom and all else will be added to you.” This is what this means. Focus first on accepting the atonement for yourself, and all else will be added to you. As you focus only on one purpose, I will guide you as to what you are to do in form. Through your willingness, you will be used to be helpful within the plan of atonement, but I ask you not to seek for that. Seek only to accept the atonement for yourself, and all else will be added to you.

Blessings in your search for fulfillment. Look within and seek only there. That is where your answer lies.